IDUG Europe 2013 - 4 Topics on Everyone’s Mind

This year DB2 celebrates 30 years of helping clients. The IDUG conferences are always great venues to connect with colleagues from around the world. The stories about companies, projects, and tools are very valuable to understand the truth, the hype, what is working, and how it is being done. The following three topics seem to . . . → Read More: IDUG Europe 2013 – 4 Topics on Everyone’s Mind

5 Reasons Why DB2 Is Still the Best Big Data Solution

The race is on among all the vendors to lock your new Big Data project in to their architecture, platform, and support contracts. All the open source Hadoop derivatives have boiled down to the leaders of Cloudera Impala, Teradata SQL-H, EMC Pivotal (formerly GreenPlum) MongoDB, and one of best–IBM’s BigSQL.

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IDUG 2013 Announcement: DB2 Family Integrates JSON, Graph Document and Key Value Data Stores

The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) North American conference celebrated both DB2 for z/OS’ 30-year anniversary and its own 25-year anniversary last week in Orlando. The conference was kicked off by a Bob Picciano who talked about the all the great items coming from the IBM Software Division. My notes from the session are too . . . → Read More: IDUG 2013 Announcement: DB2 Family Integrates JSON, Graph Document and Key Value Data Stores

IDUG 2013: Why DB2 Has Been Going Strong for Thirty Years

The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) North American conference is celebrating both DB2 for z/OS’ 30 year anniversary and its own 25-year anniversary of representing the DB2 Users around the world. The IDUG conference is going to be especially good this year because of the five reasons I mentioned here. With the latest information . . . → Read More: IDUG 2013: Why DB2 Has Been Going Strong for Thirty Years

IDUG 2013: Five Reasons Why IDUG Orlando is going to be great this year!

The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) North American conference is only a month away. This year IDUG is really going to be great because many DB2 related items are coming together and are sure to be detailed, dissected and discussed in depth at the conference. Below are the five most important reasons to make sure . . . → Read More: IDUG 2013: Five Reasons Why IDUG Orlando is going to be great this year!